Illinois: Looking for Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, young attorneys who had faced each other earlier in Livingston County's first court case, later the same day debated political issues at this very site. At the Old Settlers' meeting held in…
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In February 1855,Abraham Lincoln was with a group of sixty passengers stranded in Pontiac after a train, bound for Springfield from Chicago, became mired in a snowdrift just this side of where the village of Cayuga was to be platted some two…
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Abraham Lincoln spoke inthe little Presbyterian Churchon the northwest corner ofLivingston and Mill streets onJan. 27, 1860, shortly before being nominated for the presidency at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May 16. Linco…
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Left PanelA FRIEND FOREVER"I appeal to you because I can to no other with so much confidence," Lincoln said to Doctor William H. Fithian, August 15, 1860. He was asking for Fithian's assistance in a political matter.After both were elected to the Illinois L…
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While sitting up late the night of January 27, 1860,in the Pontiac home of Jason Strevell, Abraham Lincolnpredicted he would be nominated for the vice presidency of the young Republican party. In a letter to his son in 1901, Strevell said; "…
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Lincoln's good friend Jesse Fell had more to do with shaping early events in Livingston County and Pontiac than any other man. He named the county and, in 1837, was instrumental in having the county seat located here. He named the town…
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Left Section When word of President Lincoln's assassination came, most of Pontiac's male population had not yet returned from the Civil War. But their wives and children remained, and when word was received that the special train bearing his body would pass…
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In 1863, Ohio Governor David Tod believed that Lincoln needed a cavalry body-guard. Governor Tod requested one volunteer from each county in Ohio to serve on special duty. Guernsey County, in east-central Ohio supplied Ephraim Adamson, a twe…
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Anthony Thornton and Abraham Lincoln led fairly similar lives. Both were born in Kentucky, were tall, and were Whigs.
Both began practicing law in Illinois in 1836, even though Thornton was college-educated and read law in an uncle's law…
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Taverns - - or Inns - - were the primary accommodation for the circuit traveler. Before arriving in Shelbyville, the judge and lawyers had a two-day journey from Paris, usually with an overnight stay in Charleston. Abraham Lincoln was one…